Just a quick video...

I've been lazy the last few days with the whole blogging thing, but as we all know, Bahamut's Dreadnought never sleeps. Since my last post, we've lot of experience parties, did some quests; all the fun stuff that we do :)

At any rate, here's a video I took of me soloing Peerifool for the quest "One Good Deed?"...the reward for which is the Map of Attohwa Chasm. Almeth discovered the quest the other day, and it wasn't hard to convince me to tackle it myself...

The fight was very easy, but it was long. It took me about 20 minutes to finish off all six of the mobs, plus the two Alraune that linked during the fight. I had to speed the video up to twice normal speed just to fit it into the 10 minute limit Youtube imposes...but it is kinda funny to watch... :)

That's all for now! ^^

How to draw a crowd in East Ronfaure (S)...

Our first order of business Wednesday was to travel up to Fei'Yin and get the Ice Fragment for Zilart Mission 5. This just involved some traveling, no fighting or anything, so I changed to WHM and teleported Almeth and I out to Vahzl so we could start the long, boring run through Xarcabard and Beaucedine Glacier. I decided to wear the pieces of my AF that I could, the hat is pretty damn stupid looking to be totally honest. I never see people wearing the hat...go figure.

I know it's kinda dark...but seriously, is that not the most retarded hat you've ever seen?

Making our way to the headstone was a piece of cake...I'm finally getting WHM to a level where everything isn't going to one-shot me, so that's nice. There are some angry weapon type mobs directly in front of the Cloister of Frost, but it's easy to sneak by them. At any rate, we got our fragment and moved on to our real goal of the evening...some serious Adventuring Fellow leveling...

{Recall-Jugner}{You can have this.}

I love the fact that the chocobos in the past are black, it just makes them look meaner...

When we got back to San d'Oria (S), I quick changed into DNC, and half heartedly talked to the Campaign Evaluator...I have been kinda lazy lately and haven't been doing Campaign shit, so I was shocked as shit when instead of telling me I sucked and to go die in a fire, they gave me the next medal, the Sterling Star. I really think they made a mistake, but hey, I ain't gonna complain...

"You sure you don't have me confused with someone else??"

After that surprise, Almeth and I headed out to East Ronfaure (S) to get started killing Ladybugs like mad. The plan was to start off with our Signal Pearl, then as soon as that was completed, to pop our Tactics Pearl over and over until that was spent as well. It worked out damn well, I would say.

We started off in the same spot we'd been doing it before, on the eastern side of the zone about halfway down. There was a BLU there killing ladybugs by himself that started crying about how we were killing all the mobs and all that crap, so rather then tell him to fuck off, we decided to move over south of the fortification, and it was the best thing we ever did. Since fighting 6 at a time was no big deal, we decided to up the ante, and the efficiency, and just pull as many as we could find...

Raka and Fhig, just before the mass Ladybug extinction of 2009.

We started off a little slow, only fighting four mobs in this picture...


...then we started getting crazier and crazier as the night went on. I think there's 9 here.


It was ridiculous how many Ladybugs we had at one time...at some points, they couldn't even path correctly so they'd just kinda fly in circles around each other.


This silly bitch thought some stupid Noisome Powder would stave off it's annihilation.


I did still have to Curing Waltz from time to time...nine of these guys hitting for 30-40 each really adds up.


Dancing Edge was enough to pretty much put one down completely, and Almeth had plenty of opportunities to do it...


It was funny as fuck in the game, but really, this would be fucking terrifying if it happened in real life.


People running by gave us some funny looks...

Towards the end of the last charge of our Tactics Pearl, we'd actually started to attract a crowd of people watching us fight all these Ladybugs at once. We had so many, that they were popping as quick as we killed them, so Almeth would just run off and grab more as he saw them while I just kept working on the ones we had. Good samaritans, on their way to Campaign, stopped to ask us if we needed help, but a few people actually stayed just to watch and chat with us while we fought. I mean, really, how often is it you see a couple people fighting like every Ladybug in the zone at one time? When our Adventuring Fellows despawned for the last time, a few people /cheered and /laughed, and everyone waved goodbye. It was a good time, and it was kinda like we were performing for people. Fun stuff ^^

All told, we each got our NPC's a couple levels (level 43, woot!) and came away with 15k worth of Ladybug Wings each...a nice bonus in itself. Almeth and I headed back to town to turn in our loots, and at about that time GodzillaX showed up to hang out with us. Almeth elected to hang in town and work on some campaign ops with his Ninja, while GodzillaX and I ran off to do some Campaign battles. I should have come out as my WHM, but my DNC is a little behind Almeth and Amedelie so I decided to try and catch up instead.

There was a ton of people doing Campaign tonight...as soon as the battle ended it was like a mass exodus of people sprinting for the Campaign Arbiter.


GodzillaX helps me tear down the enemy fort in Pashhow Marshlands (S), meanwhile this slug thing is really freaking me out. I ain't never seen that shit before...


Some random person getting owned by an Orc...they were kinda pissed off today, but there were plenty of us to handle it.

Although GodzillaX bit it at one point (sorry pimp, I tried to save you!) it was a pretty successful run. I got a little closer to Amedelie and Almeth, and came away with a good amount of Allied Notes as well. I've got 30,000 so far...only 140,000 more (and 4 more ranks in Campaign) and I can pick up the Cobra Cap set; it looks like it'll be really hot for Dancer. I can't wait...

{See you again.}{Good night!}{/wave}!

More ZM5, NM hunting in Temple of Uggalepih/Level 66 Party, Wajaom Woodlands...

When Almeth and I logged on Saturday the plan was for us to level our NPC fellows some more. However, as soon as we were ready to get started, Twinblade let us know that they were about to start making their way out to get the Fire Fragment, so we dropped our plans to go join them and get that as well. This involved a long, and ultimately disastrous, trek through Ifrit's Cauldron...

My first time ever in here, and it's a scary place...


To make things even scarier, there are lava flows that flare up in certain spots...preventing us from moving forward until they calmed down.


Thank God for Tonko and Monomi...there's no way I would have been able to do this using my broken casted sneak and invis...

At the very end of our trip, just before the zone into Yuhtunga Jungle, Twinblade and the WHM that had come along aggro'd a bomb, and since Almeth and I were ahead, stuck behind a lava flow, there was nothing we could do but watch in horror as they died. Since they were the only two with Raise in our party, they elected to give up and Home Pointed. Down to just three of us (Almeth, me, and a 72 Dark Knight that also lived through the trip), we decided to give the NM's a shot anyway...and wouldn't you know it, we managed to put the NM's down without too much trouble. Almeth was good enough to get him and I a garnet, so not only did we get our Fire Fragment, but we got ourselves an Opo-opo Necklace as well. Since it's used in most of the melee based Maat fights to break the level 70 cap, this was very important for us to have, and will come in quite handy.

With that out of the way, Almeth and I decided to try and kill another NM in the Temple of Uggalepih: Habetrot. This was purely a money kill; he doesn't drop any gear or anything, but he does drop anywhere from 1-4 Twincoons, which sell for about 25k each on the Auction Hall. Since he is a popped NM, and you can attempt to spawn him every 15 minutes, it wasn't too big of a deal to go out there and try and beat him down. Unfortunately, you can also spawn a plain old Crawler as well, and from our experience it looks like that's the more likely outcome...

At any rate, we used the time between pops to kill the random Tonberries, Wespes, and Rumble Crawlers that roam the vicinity...

I'd almost feel sorry for the guys if they weren't such little bastards.


"Yeah, sucka, eat that!!!"


When Almeth stands behind me and get's hit...this is what I see.


Somehow we managed to link 3 bees...wouldn't be so bad if they didn't heal themselves all the goddamn time.


"You're not the NM! Go get Habetrot, damn you!!"

We'd exhausted our supply of pop items without ever managing to get the NM. We journeyed further into the Temple to look for another NM to kill, but alas, we didn't have the proper key to get through a door we needed to, so we pretty much gave up on it and warped back to town. Not a stellar finish for the day, but at least we got the Fire Fragment done.


I took Sunday off for family commitments, but I did log on and pop my Empress Band in anticipation of our exp party Monday night in Wajaom. We all got on at our normal time and made our way out...

Regulators, mount up!!


"Whoa, dude...you do not hit me there!"

Legend has it, Puks are a mixture of Dragons and Colibri...why they have insect-like wings I have no idea...

As we were working on our second Empress Band of the evening, the redoubtable GodzillaX showed up, asked us what we were up to, and decided to come along and join the fun. It'd been a while since we partied with him, and it was nice having him with us again. ^^

One second before Almeth got his face bit off...these things are nasty little fuckers!


GodzillaX showing us how it's done...


GodzillaX catches a Crosswind to the face; Almeth's taking a stroll...


We threw the odd Tiger into the mix, but their AOE Paralyze was really fucking annoying...


Gotta love Ninja; with Mijin Gakure, you never need to bring a warp scroll with you...

Seriously, just look at this things teeth...

That was the end of our evening. Amedelie and GodzillaX logged for the night, and I went back to San d'Oria to trigger Sandy Mission 6-1. Hopefully we can knock that out tomorrow, it'd be nice to start ranking up again :)

In the cutscene, I got to talk ot the King again, and I told him what I really think about all this...

Think he get's the point? ^^

Until next time...

Level 24 Duo, Qufim Island/Zilart Mission 5 stuff...

First off, I just wanted to share a funny name I noticed today while running around on my Windy mule:

Nice....

Ok, back to business...

Anyways, since Almeth's been leveling his NIN more lately, he's been edging ever closer to needing to level his WAR up some more so as to not be "teh gimp". We'd discussed it some last night after the ZM stuff we were doing, and decided to pair up his WAR with my RDM. It's been a while since I've touched RDM, so I was a little rusty, but I am excited to level it some...I really wanna get it to 40 for BCNM purposes, since like every damn BCNM has a strategy involving a RDM. I grabbed what gear I could piece together earlier in the day, got my macros all set up, and made my way out to Jeuno to meet Almeth and get to killing...

I'd forgotten what it's like to fear dying out here...

We had a bit of a rough start...Almeth and I decided to try and fight a worm that had spawned just a little too close to an Evil Weapon that was wandering around. We thought we would be ok, but those hopes were quickly dashed as the Weapon turned around, aggro'd Almeth, and started beating him down. I tried to stick a Bind on him so we could run...but I was too slow on the draw and Almeth got beat to death. The weird thing was that the mob despawned immediately after Almeth died...I know I cured him, but for some reason the mob just didn't feel like finishing me off. At any rate, Almeth ran back out, and we got back to it...

Worms love skillchains...

We were getting damn good exp with our empress bands, better then I expected at any rate. Our bands were spent in no time, which was actually a good thing as Qufim was fucking jam-packed. Seriously, there were duo's and trio's all over the place. The competition was pretty damn annoying, but we did get to lawl a bit as other groups rushed to out claim us, only to wipe because they didn't want to rest up between fights. I mean, worms don't move...why didn't they run away? Is keeping a claim worth a full wipe? Guess so...

With our bands finished off after like 15 mobs, we decided to work on getting a couple of the headstones done that don't require fights. We headed back to Jeuno, I changed to WHM, Almeth changed to THF, and away we were...next stop: Crag of Holla and Ordelle's Caves.

These pants don't go with my top at all, I feel like a fucking clown...

I don't think Square Enix could have made a more boring looking zone...

The trip was pretty uneventful...before long we had our Water Fragments in hand. We tried at getting Tumbling Truffle to spawn (no reason, the gear he drops sucks, but we were right there so fuck it, eh?) but he wanted to be a prick and not pop. We killed a few Napalms to try and get a Flame Degen to drop, needed for the quest Northward for a map of Castle Zvahl. Again, no dice. Finally, we killed a Stroper Chyme in a half-hearted attempt to get a Shikaree Ring, and holy shit, wouldn't you know it...one dropped. I can't even tell you how many of those stupid things we've killed...but finally we got one. I passed it to Almeth; it's a nice ring but I'm sure he'll put it to better use then I...


With spring in our step, I teleported us out to Altepa and we made our way to Quicksand Caves and the next marker...

Never catch me ridin' dirty...

"Almeth, wait for me, these monsters are scarrrryyyyyyy!!!"

I went with Ninja subbed, so I could use Tonko and Monomi, rather then regular Sneak and Invis...for some reason the regular ones I cast always seem to just suck ass and wear really quick. At any rate, we made our way through Quicksand Caves pretty safely, until...

See Almeth. See Almeth fight the Sabotender. See Almeth take 1,000 Needles to the face.

Yeah...we fought a sabotender that aggro'd without incident. Another one aggro'd pretty much immediately after, and thinking "no big deal" Almeth worked on it while I rested back some MP. I watched in horror as it hit him with 1,000 needles and one-shotted him. He was a little irritated (I don't blame him), but luckily I had just picked up Raise II the other day, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been (thank God I was WHM and not Dancer, though...that woulda sucked). He deleveled (ouch!) but he was only a few hundred away from getting it back. With sneak back up, we continued on our journey...

Almeth clicked this thing, and it sunk in the ground. I still don't know what the hell it does, though...

Finally, the Earth Fragment is ours!

Since Almeth was so close to getting his level back, we hung around and took out some of the Antican's that roam the area before heading out. It took a little while, but was a nice, low-key finish to the evening...

This guy glitched and kept wailing away at the spot Almeth was in before he ran around behind me. Pretty fucking funny...


[insert witty comment here]


Almeth wants to pull an Antican, and we know what's gonna happen...they're gonna start dry humping.


God, Blaze Spikes is fucking annoying...

A little "Paralyze" to get things off to a good start...

That was pretty much the end of our evening. Almeth got his level back and a small buffer, and we warped the hell out. So far we've got our Dark, Light, Lightning, Earth and Water Fragments done; now all that's left is Ice, Fire, and Wind. I can't wait to see how fucked up ZM6 is... ^^

In closing, here's a picture of your's truly...I was bored:

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I am a sexy bitch...

Laters!